skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're always conveniently omitting that you've - by your own description - grown up as a rich kid in the US. Wonder if that can have an impact!

It's pathetic to keep going on about your Bangladeshi background over and over when you've been a rich since your was a kid and now spend your days defending the status quo and thus your privileges.
You can consistently hold both views.

If the rules of property mean I have certain rights.

But I don’t like the rules of property, and I want them to change.
You're stuck in the past. We're seeing an exponential growth in hydrogen stations.
I've been a senior dev for quite some time and I was never required to be on call beyond my standard 9-5 hours. I mostly work in enterprise development and, if the systems are critical, there are dedicated teams who're doing the 24/7 support. Furthermore, in the finance sector the developers are not allowed by law to even touch production (to prevent fraud). You could still be theoretically brought into a call to help-troubleshoot, but I've never worked on a system critical enough for that to ever be requested.
FYI. Cannabis psychosis is also symptomatically identical to schizophrenia.
BTW, having to sign up just to see the price is a big no-no for me and I'd probably not sign up just to see it.
Talking about bad design decisions, I prefer GitLab's way to handle Pages over GitHub. It's just strange to store generated artifacts in a (`gh-pages`) branch. Instead, in GitLab it's stored as separate files and removed automatically after a certain period.
Surely it's possible to develop more sophisticated filtering methods than simply banning words that are spelt the same as "naughty" words. Seems like an obvious opportunity for machine learning.

After all, the Scunthorpe Problem is not new.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

The UK has many places with riské names by modern standards: there's a Faggot in Northumberland, a Fingringhoe in Essex, a Bitchfield in Lincolnshire, and so on.
Stock market manipulation.
Server side react components has the best data fetching story I've ever seen

They demoed an application that has a react component powered directly by a SQL query, when the client next fetched anything from that page, changes in terms of data coming out of the SQL query were automatically propagated to the client

No data fetch API just coding like you would in a server side app with React handling the IO

I hope someone starts implementing something like Drupal on top for automatic deadlock prevention, declarative data driven interfaces for forms, schema etc
The general buying public is also prone to thinking “smart TVs” is a good thing, so it’s almost a requisite if you want to succeed selling to the broad population.
>which for the most of the world remains exclusive for the upper middle class

Maybe true in poor countries but in Australia it seems that essentially everyone has one or a phone at a similar cost. You see food delivery drivers and school children walking around with iphone 12 pros. Monthly payment plans make anything purchasable I guess.
That’s right, let’s ignore the context of this discussion, and instead argue the semantics of the word.

Do you cry censorship when someone shushes you in the cinema?
Freedom of speech isn't an edgy world view.
I think you meant "harnessed" rather than "harassed."
> My perspective is that I don't really care.

If this screed is just about telegraphing your own wilful disregard for online safety and profound disinterest/absence of knowledge about what a locally connected hostile network device is capable of, then it’s hardly worth responding to.

However, if you’re trying to deliver an implied suggestion that “no-one should care”, then this actively harmful message deserves solid rejection. The consequences range from turning households into spam drones, to placing at-risk folks in physical peril through commoditised surveillance.

It remains an extraordinarily privileged and wonderful thing to live without fear of the capabilities of a corporate- or state-level actor. What’s not so wonderful is being reminded that many folks with this privilege lack the self-awareness to appreciate it.
It's not like the criticism in this case is particularly esoteric: Literally the first explanation is that the proposed classes don't encapsulate single concepts. That's the theory of the first course you'd get about this in school, or if you're self taught something you'd see within the first 30 minutes of casual googling about the subject.

I think it's fair to question what is going on in the article if the mistakes made are of such a basic nature.
I find it a bit silly because "ethical" is a vague term that can be interpreted in many different ways. For instance, some people will still not think that the dairy's practices are "ethical", if the end result is the same, i.e. slaughtering the animals.
> Hydrogen fuel cells were a stupid option paraded out repeatedly (usually by legacy companies using it to say EVs were bad) and Tesla said as much at the time.

Hydrogen fuel cells are not a stupid option.
Charging is here the stupid option. When 50000 houses need each 20KWh each night at almost the same time they will destroy the local power lines which were not designed for this.

> The predictions about battery tech improvements were reasonable ones and publicly made (arguably easy to accept).

Well battery improvements shall have come earlier (in 100 years there was almost no improvement). Even now the dream of having your battery to save your solar power is still mostly a dream.

> Legacy companies could fix this in theory, but in practice they wasted ten years and aren’t making the moves necessary today. I’d bet against them.

Legacy companies want profits which are rising, to please the stakeholders.
Are you comparing to iPhone SE 2016 (1st generation)?
globe-trotting person here who been living as a foreigner since the age of 18 (and close to 50 now).

I understand your anger. I'd be furious too :(

> please don't take that privilege for granted.

I will always take that for granted. It is literally my only "god given" right to move wherever I want and live there (provided I can sustain myself)[1]. The idea that a country has the right to restrict my movement based on an arbitrary border, by issuing a paper defining where I may travel and for how long (based on my skin color) is absurd and something worth going to war for both metaphorically and literally.

[1] technology plays a big part here in the crimes that countries commit against individuals (refugees and otherwise), and I've witnessed an gradual increase of restrictions, over the past 20 or so years especially in Western countries including my home country. Compared to 20 years ago we now already live in a dystopia of restriction, it just is distributed unevenly.
> It's actually somewhat rational.

> Say you just graduated college and make 30k as a waiter.

This is only rational in the US
If you're interested in this obsolete format, Techmoan did a great video about wire recorders:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90ihiTwJPCc
You're welcome to do whatever you like, don't complain to me when you end up in jail.

I'm not claiming laws are bad, I'm claiming Facebook isn't the fucking police.
What transport to use and whether to use CSP are somewhat orthogonal problems. It's probably best to use both if you can, but either will improve things by themselves.
eBay violates CAN-SPAM act?
Ebay sends these mails asking you to update your personal information in order to 'improve security'.

There is no opt-out option, and it is doubtful that updating your address will actually improve 'security' in any meaningful sense.

Therefore, this is a veiled attempt at gathering user data for commercial purposes, and there is no opt-out, thus violating the CAN-SPAM act?

https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/retrieveECFR?gp=1&SID=cea8be427...
Studying Lenin's Brain: https://brain.mpg.de/institute/history/lenins-brain.html

When Lenin died of a brain hemorrhage in 1924, his brain was preserved in formaldehyde, where it remained for two years. In 1926, [German physician and neurologist Oskar] Vogt was recruited by the Soviet government to help establish Lenin's genius via histological investigation of his brain.

In 1927, Vogt gave a preliminary report on his findings in Moscow, concluding from his histological observations that Lenin must have been an athlete in associative thinking ("Assoziationsathlet") - a conclusion deemed farfetched by some of his neurologist colleagues and adversaries.
Bad code is the norm (regardless of paradigm), because it's a profitable industry that rewards entry but not necessarily skill. It's not really a failing of the paradigm that it's applied wrong when that is the norm in all aspects of the practice.
It's often put as "temporarily abled" or "able-bodied".

"We're all just temporarily abled."

is quite famous quote, as far as I traced attributed to Cindy Li.
Fixed now! https://lists.schokokeks.org/pipermail/qutebrowser-announce/...
Vivaldi 3.6 Introduces Two-Level Tab Stacks
1. e-commerce. I changed the notification sound on my email to play a cash register whenever I made a sale.

I was literally using the internet to make money on things that didn't have to ship.

2. Crazy sharp knives -- in the kitchen and on the worksite. The difference between a dull knife and sharp one gives me the same feeling of, "How did I live like that before?"
I agree. But I am wondering, I remember linux had a lot of multiple Desktops, but somehow this fad never stuck. So maybe one Desktop was somehow a good idea?
Because something went wrong once! /s
Short sellers first short the shares and then declare their position publicly that they are short because XYZ reason.

If others find that the reasons given by the short sellers is legit more people short and driving down the price but instead with GME the opposite happened.
Yeh why. DNS is one of the few service that seem ok
You started with the discussion about the semantics of the word, so I responded.

Wrong comparison.
I know this is crazy, but have you talked with Bill Gates?

He planned to pre-fund several coronavirus vaccine manufacturing plans _prior to FDA approval_ just to speed up vaccine production. He expected several of those would end up being wasted money. [1]

Perhaps he would find this valuable too?

[1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/bill-gates-7-potentia...
> Even now the legacy companies are held up by few EV models, bad range, bad software, bad dealership experience, and bad charging networks.

I’m not so sure. At least from a European perspective it looks like traditional car makers have caught up and even overtaken Tesla in the low price segment (VW eUp)
But if you subtract the billions devoid of critical thought, suddenly that sample size looks a lot sexier.
There is kind of a continuum between cases that are pure squeeze 'n memes and ones that are more based on non-linear long term value propositions. Three years ago, I think you could make a case for Tesla that it was either going to go bankrupt or grow many times over, but not stay in between. It may even be that bankruptcy was the more likely outcome. But if you gather enough support in the belief that a successful outcome is possible, then it can become self-fulfilling, especially if capital is one of the main obstacles. The company can use capital raised from the boom in the share price to lower debt and invest.

In the extreme case this could be true of almost any company. Imagine if GME were just a shell and a brand. Then they raise money, get a great board, hire industry experts, and go... whatever.. compete with Steam, turn the physical stores into e-sports venues, pivot to game development, whatever. Use the money to get the expertise, and you already have the brand and attention, which is now worth a lot more. That is kind of what happened with Tesla to some extent, although they already had a great brand a genius owner.
I feel like you're missing the forest for the trees. We love all kinds of things of a technical nature. Trains, skyscrapers, bulldozers, rockets, tanks, guns, etc. I love driving a tank in video games and I love watching movies about tanks, but that doesn't mean I condone their use in real-world warfare unless absolutely necessary.
Live-Debugging Nim in a Game Engine
Looking at whois history sites, it looks like the domain was owned by Tom Christiansen aka tchrist, which wrote Programming Perl, Learning Perl and the Perl Cookbook.

The record wasn't supposed to expire until 2029, so not sure how the squatters got this domain.
> How can a union fight for workers' rights if they're barred from political activity?

You are replying to something I didn't write.

I want them barred from supporting specific parties, not from influencing laws, negotiating, organizing, providing legal support etc.

Around here unions largely align with what is probably Labour elsewhere, which makes sense. But I personally feel I cannot in good conscience be found supporting someone who directly time and time again organizes boycotts against middle Easts only somehow working democracy.

I cannot live with supporting companies that are openly hostile to values I find important.

So I end up outside the unions, at least until someone creates one that promises to not do that.

> If companies can engage in political activity, it follows that workers' unions are just as entitled.

Yep. And that's ok. But I won't support them as long as they try to meddle in international affairs or even push national lawmaking in directions I think are abhorrent.
Hey dang. Just want to say I think the new community guidelines are great and you’re doing a good job moderating HN. I stopped coming here for a long time because it seemed every comment was snarky. Everyone was just so rude to each other. I’ve noticed that has dramatically improved! So, thank you.
WSB Sentiment Tracker
My point is that if you are worried- or tell me to worry- about climate change because of the negative impacts it's going to have on societies (especially the poorest ones) because of how it affects basic resources (water, agricultural yields) causing conflicts and migrations, then you should be much more worried about the direct impacts of a doubling of population in those societies.

Instead you measure the impact of climate change in terms of negative impacts on society, but when you are put in front of something else that has huge, obvious and direct negative effects on those same metrics, then you seem only interested in how it affects climate change!

Ah, and as an aside: sure, one billion more Africans are no problem for the climate, as long as they remain shit poor. I assume you have a plan to ensure that too, in the next thirty years.
"Sexual assault", "infanticide", "forced pregnancy" and "murder", these are terms that are normally used to mean something that a human does to another human, not another kind of animal.

I'm curious, but would you call what male cats do to female cats "sexual assault"? Or what cats do to mice, "murder"?

I'm asking because the reason that "murder", in particular, is usually only applied to human behaviour is because a human motive is usually assumed, i.e. either some sort of emotion like anger etc, or financial or other profit. Conversely most people don't believe that animals can have other motives for killing other animals than to eat them (yet check out "surplus killing" on wikipedia). So I'd say that killing another animal to eat it seems to only be interpreted as "murder" when it's done by a human, which sounds like it's motivated from reasons other than to succinctly and precisely define a certain behaviour.
Yeah, so it's just before Apple started really ramping up their cameras and computational photography. Which isn't to say it couldn't take good pictures back then, it totally could, but it would either only do that in good conditions, or if you put effort into it. That no longer seems to be true anymore.
> Open Source Accountability

What does it even mean? MIT or GPL? It look like a misuse of "open source" as a buzzword.
F U 2!
Cool! Oh one other thing: The "Continue with Google" doesn't work. It just comes back to the same login page.
Because window managers. Windows 7 and before definitely didn't make it obvious how to make a window half a screen, Windows 10 makes it a bit more obvious I think, but you're still limited to 2 windows side by side. Ubuntu's default window manager has the same behaviour as W7 and Lubuntu's doesn't have keybindings for this by default at all.

You can of course resize windows manually but it's tedious compared to a 2 button shortcut, especially having to hunt the 3 pixel wide resize button with wrist issues.
If what WSB did was irresponsible and dangerous, then all of Wall Street is irresponsible and dangerous.

That's the point here. The only difference is that regular people made money this time.
Because when you can brand any idea as radical or dangerous, you get to dictate what radical or dangerous is, and when you do that, you control the narrative and people.
EU citizens’ rights are under threat from anti-encryption proposals
It's okay to not know the last framework
So that those with the currently loudest voices can silence all others?

So that the "invisible hand of the market" may decide who is wisest (as demonstrated when we look at all the instances where this happened)?

I think all of these wishes of a true public space are usually colored by the (mis?)perception of certain opinions being opressed, when in fact they are often just socially unacceptable because of their destructive nature.

Not to be that guy, but I grew up in Austria inbetween old Nazis and young Neo-Nazis. When they said: "you are trying to silence us" what they meant is "we want to establish the old power again, so we can silence you. until that happens, we want free speech". This is literally (translated from a very thick accent in Austrian German) what one of the neo nazis said to me after the 8th beer and a heated discussion. To assume these people want free speech for anybody other than themselves is naive. For them tolerating others is a vehicle to convince them of their cause: Once they have what they want they will get rid of it.

The question how much tolerance we have to show those who themselves are intolerant is a old one and still not easy to answer. However to me it is quite clear that we should sacrifice the free society we have without a fight.
Reasons like? Bad science? It's objectively bad there, in the sense of making shit up without even remote plausibility.

Simpleton depiction of social dynamics? It has nothing to do with Chinese intellectuals; Strugatsky brothers and Stanislaw Lem did nuanced social commentary while living in similar regimes.

And seriously am a bit at unease with the implication that it have to be flawed because it's from China. There are great, eloquent Chinese authors. Do read Folding Beijing (also not a hard-SF), it's simply in a different class.
I also heard about a problem with a chat platform that kicked
german users for using the common word "weniger"
("less"/"fewer"). Meaning not only didn't it care about context,
it even banned incorrect spelling of words, which in this
example made it impossible to mention the Republic of the Niger.
So I guess this is the future. Anything cnn doesn’t like they’ll compare to trump somehow?
If the trade-off between energy-cheap human-like processing and our computers is reliability, it's definitely worth doing.
If we had unlimited human like processing, we would basically have unlimited slaves without affecting biological organism similar to us.

Not to mention, it's worth doing it just for having 100000 times cheaper machine learning.
Pac-Man: Birth of an Icon
https://qutebrowser.org/

> qutebrowser is a keyboard-focused browser with a minimal GUI. It’s based on Python and PyQt5 and free software, licensed under the GPL.

> It was inspired by other browsers/addons like dwb and Vimperator/Pentadactyl.
Just because some people like to do it doesn't make it ok. Git good at being in the society.
Right, but that's the in-joke. People refer to themselves as mentally disabled. It does set the tone - namely, of leaving your ego at the door. I fail to see how this is a negative.
"Give me 280 characters typed by the hand of an honest man, I will find something in them to cancel him."

Anon paraphrasing Cardinal Richelieu (Alledgelly)
Central authority is a poor substitute for social consensus.

If you look at a case like this, there is absolutely no question or ambiguity "which perl.com domain people really want." This issue only exists because of an artificial monopoly and an application of capitalism to an allocation problem that doesn't exist.

Domain names should be a thin wrapper around private/public keypairs. Domain keys should be pinned per application or per first use OS-wide, with configuration tools to unpin and update the mapping. Any critical access, such as update servers, should always use the full key anyways. There is no reason in principle that there shouldn't be multiple name-key assignments for perl.com, except inasmuch as it would make webdevs' and OS developers' jobs slightly harder. Hell, ping both and see which one matches the pinned https key for perl.com, and this problem would already have been solved! This whole monopoly is caused by a bad band-aid technical solution for a social problem that we can and should find a better solution for.

I'm not saying "boycott DNS." I'm saying "the fact that everyone is fine with the current state of affairs is an embarrassment."

I want an OS built from the core up around a web of trust model. I want my browser to ask my (manually introduced) peers "which of those versions of perl.com do you think is the one I want." I want a computer with no hardcoded central server queries at all. (And while we're at it, I want it connected to the internet via mesh links.) But I'll never get that, because it'll always be easier to just hardcode some central authority and go home.
I agree with you. But there's definitely a controversy here, in the sense that two large groups have strongly differing opinions.

To my eyes, that controversy is part of a very public power struggle. I firmly believe that the WSB community is in the right, and that any legal gray areas are subtle enough that it would require a judge to decide. So there is no reason for internet companies to pre-emptively wash their hands of the situation. But yet here we are.
The argument that centralization is need for discoverability is pretty shallow. Good federation does the same thing.

> We could bounce back on a new platform and development would go on within days.

But agreeing on a platform takes longer, so might as well build up some alternatives now.
> Even the (Linux) open source world starts to move towards bad performance when a decade ago they broadly prided themselves by being not as bloated and slow as all the "Windows crap".

We've ended up collectively trading availability of applications for performance I'd say because of things like electron.

And yes it is a tradeoff.

KDE and Linux however is still blazing fast so there's still some[1] speed advantage.

[1]: and sometimes, like with git, command line applications and compiling - a whole lot.
Ads aren't that much of a problem, but serving cryptominers/phishing websites/viruses is a real issue.
Put simply, the resolution is no different from the previous proposals which generated a wide backlash from privacy-conscious companies, civil society members, experts, and MEPs. The difference this time is that the Council has taken a more subtle approach and avoided explicitly using words like ‘ban’ or ‘backdoor.’ But make no mistake, this is the intention. It’s important that steps are taken now to prevent these proposals going too far and keep European’s rights to privacy intact.”
Oh the other hand, it worked amazingly on low resource systems. Having a compositor at all still only dates from Aero.
Ahem...

https://thenextweb.com/shareables/2010/02/27/newsweek-1995-b...

https://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2012/02/the_internet_futur...